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Gender roles are the roles that women and men are expected to occupy based on their sex. When we look at our history, women’s gender roles circle around characteristics like passivity, helpfulness, and kindness. And hence traditionally, women are seen in the light of as nurturers, caregivers, helpers, and homemakers. On the other hand, men’s gender roles revolve mainly around characteristics such as strength, dominance, and assertiveness. And so traditionally, men’s gender roles include being a leader, breadwinner, and protector.
Times have changed since then and yet as a society we seem to adhere to the traditional gender roles which are outdated in today’s context. I spoke with 100 men and women in the last couple of months and the findings have been astounding. As much as I thought that it would be only women who would be affected by the rigidity of the gender roles, the reality was far different.
Sharing some insights with all of you to ponder and bring awareness.
The traditional gender roles also play an important role in the belief systems and how some beliefs are stored subconsciously since generations. I would be exploring these findings in the upcoming writings.
The intention of this write up is to bring the awareness on how traditional gender roles might have been affecting you and your career. In the light of these findings and exploring how has it personally affected you, you can start breaking the glass ceiling of these roles at your end.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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